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Red Delicious apples harvested at Zirkle's ranch in Mattawa Washington on September 29, 2016. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Tree fruit added to U.S. relief program for food impacted by trade disputes

August 28, 2018
Scenes from the US Apple Outlook conference Aug. 23-24, 2018, at the Swissotel in Chicago. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

New U.S. apple crop estimate revised downward

August 24, 2018
A bin of Buckeye Gala from the New Royal Bluff Orchard in Royal City, Washington, is pulled out of the tree row on Wednesday, August 22, 2018. Gala is expected to overtake Red Delicious as the state's number 1 variety by volume this year. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Gala on pace to topple Red Delicious’ reign

August 23, 2018

A high-tech ball for berries

August 22, 2018
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New leader for Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission

August 20, 2018

Rough times for Reds

August 20, 2018
Washington State University researchers test out the three-tiered automated apple harvester Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2017, in a commercial Jazz block near Prosser, Washington. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Shaking it up in the orchard: Video

August 14, 2018
Green Anjou pear

Northwest pear crop on track to be fourth-largest ever

August 14, 2018
Gala apples harvested north of Wapato, Washington, in 2015. While Galas and Red Delicious together make up 30 percent of the Washington apple crop, they represent more than 65 percent of exported varieties over the last five years. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower file photo)

Washington apple forecast: 131 million boxes

August 7, 2018
Workers cut away fireblight infections in pear orchards on Friday, June 15, 2018, near Monitor and Cashmere in the Wenatchee Valley, Washington. Nearly everyone in the pear industry in the Wenatchee Valley, even workers who have been here 34 years, is calling 2018 the worst fireblight season they have seen. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

A bad blightmare of a year

July 31, 2018